“Can’t help pinching myself and wondering how I got so lucky to be here edge walking at the #socialagesafari” That was one of the tweets I posted last night during the opening of the Social Age Safari. Yesterday’s train journey to the Social Age Safari event here in Bristol was an extended time on the … Read more
Tomorrow I am going to the Paintworks in Bristol for the Social Age Safari which is being run by Sea Salt Learning. It’s a 3 day event with people coming from around the globe. There will be loads of opportunities to build networks and to learn more about learning in the social age. Julian Stodd … Read more
This is a longer piece where I share the chance to #WorkOutLoud about my attempts to improve my productivity and apply the learning from extensive study of productivity books, websites and blogs. Last week was a turning point for me. Having been overwhelmed for several months with the sheer volume of things that I was … Read more
I wake up and I look at my iPad. Drifting from Facebook to email, looking at the daily newspaper, Twitter and LinkedIn. It’s as though everyone wants a piece of me. Except they don’t: no-one is waiting for me to give them this attention, and when I have looked and replied to something there is … Read more
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” -Stephen Covey I came across Stephen Covey’s “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” quite late. In mid-career I was working for the NHS Modernisation Agency. This was a national organisation here in England which focused … Read more
So, I had read “Care of the Soul” by Thomas Moore and found it deeply moving. It was a book about the nurturing of our souls in a world that alienates us. Moore had been a Jesuit monk, and has a doctorate in religion, and further degrees in music and psychology. He worked for a … Read more
Recently I have been revisiting some of the concepts developed in my PhD thesis 10 years ago. The text which follows is an extract from an unfinished article I wrote which describes the process I developed, drawn from Carl Jung, to develop archetypal characters. This was a core component of my PhD thesis and formed a key … Read more
“In these troubled, uncertain times, we don’t need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone’s intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.“ From the first time I read the work of Margaret Wheatley back in 2003 when I read her first book, Leadership and the New Science, I was … Read more
I studied for a PhD in the 1990s and early 2000s. It took me seven years to complete it part-time. The host for this PhD was Manchester Business School. Inevitably I came across the work of Tom Peters – I had heard of his work much earlier when I read about the influence that “In … Read more
This is the first of a series on the people who have inspired me which I will be writing over the next few months. I hope you find it useful and look forward to your reactions. I can’t remember where I first came across the work of Michael Bungay Stanier. I suspect it was through … Read more